INTERESTS ARE AFTER PROGRESSIVES
Ramsey, Donald
INTERESTS ARE AFTER PROGRESSIVES SEEK TO BEAT 3 PROMINENT NAT'L LEADERS Big Business Out to Defeat Norris, Walsh, and Phil La Follette POWER INTERESTS BACK OF MANEUVERS Slush Fund Being...
...In both states they are desperately attempting to split the progressive vote and...
...There is nothing to this claim...
...Walsh has received the Democratic nomination without opposition, but Special Privilege hopes to "get" him in November...
...It was a case of "jumping out of the frying pan into the fire.'' because a majority of the members of the commission have pushed the inquiry with...
...In the platform which he presents to the people of Wisconsin in opening his campaign for governor and in the many speeches which he has deliverer since then...
...Nebraska— the Power Trust and its supporters were left decidedly "up in the air...
...Norris Exposes Gouge Norris...
...Follette, Jr., and youngest son of "Battle Bob...
...Wall Street will feel that it has defintely checked the progressive movement in both the old political parties, Walsh Started Probe The Power Trust's peculiar interest in the matter is that Norris, Walsh and La Follette have emphasized the power issue for years...
...Phil' La Follette has gone into the matter very thoroughly and has promised, if eleted, to definitely curb the trust's actions...
...INTERESTS ARE AFTER PROGRESSIVES SEEK TO BEAT 3 PROMINENT NAT'L LEADERS Big Business Out to Defeat Norris, Walsh, and Phil La Follette POWER INTERESTS BACK OF MANEUVERS Slush Fund Being Raised to Encompass Defeat of the Progressives By DONALD RAMSEY (Staff Correspondent of Labor) Washington, D. C. As the congressional campaign o 1930 develops it becomes more and more apparent that "Big Business"—and more particularly, the Power Trustis going to extraordinary lengths to de feat three outstanding Progressives: Senator George W Norris, who will be a candidate for renomtnation in the Republican primary in Nebraska, Tuesday, August 12 Senator Thomas J. Walsh of Montana...
...If those nationally-known Progressives can be defeated...
...In its original form, the resolution called for a probe by a special Senate committee, but the power lobby, of which Lenroot of Wisconsin was such a conspicuous member, succeeded in having it diverted to the Federal Trade Commission...
...In Montana and Wisconsin the reactionaries have adopted different tactics...
...except his own sense of what Is best for the general welfare...
...Slush Funds" Ready Washington observers who make it a point to keep in touch with political developments in all sections of the country, declare that the Power Trust and its allied interests are prepared to spend an almost unlimited amount of money to defeat these outstanding leaders...
...For example, in Wisconsin, an effort is being made to make it appear that Governor Kohler, notorious "open shopper," is the "friend" of the workers and that the national leaders of organized labor" are divided in their support of the a Follettes...
...When Chief Justice Goss of the State Supreme Court directed the secretary of state to refuse to accept the filing papers of Norris No...
...by his championship of government operation of Muscle Shoal and his remarkably clear statementrevealing the appalling extent to which the American consumers are gouged by the power interests, is regarded by the trust as its most formidable enemy in public life...
...The claim is even made that Walsh is friendly to the power interests...
...Leaders of the La Follette organisation in Wisconsin caused members of the state legislature to make an inquiry" concerning electric light rates in the province of Ontario, Canada, and on this side of the line and sustained Norris' contention that the trust is collecting from the American people about $700,000,000 a year in excess rates...
...more particularly, the labor vote, by raising all kinds or false and misleading issues...
...This assertion Is utterly false...
...In the campaign of 1928 President Ohl of the Wisconsin Federation of Labor denounced Kohler because of his "open shop" policies, and the Standard Railroad Labor Organizations sent a special edition of LABOR into the state and in other ways cantributed materially to the support of the La Follette candidates...
...Walsh introduced the resolution in the Senate which led to the amazing revelations by the Federal Trade Commission concerning Power Trust propaganda...
...During his 18 years In the Senate, Walsh has given ample evidence that, there is no power on earth which can "control" him...
...Try to Divide Workers It is difficult to see how they can defeat Norris, although reports from Nebraska indicate that the "standpat" Republican machine, the big banking Interests, all the public utility corporations, and the grain speculators are "going the limit" in support of W. M. Stebbins, Norris' principal opponent...
...The scheme was to destroy Norris by placing a man with the same name in the race for senator...
...Radicals" Ajtainst Walsh No one authorized to speak for the American labor movement has said anything to indicate that there has been the slightest change in this attitude...
...great vigor...
...2—the chain-store clerk from Broken Bow...
...Phil" La Follette, brother ot Senator Robert M. La...
...Wisconsin labor is a unit for the Progressives...
...In Nebraska the trust's plans "missed fire...
...In Montana the Anaconda Copper Company, which has just slashed the wages of its employes, is financing a socaled "radical" movement in opposition to WaLsh...
...Phil" is a candidate for the Republican nomination for governor of the Badger State, and the primary will be held on Tuesday, September 16...
...The same scheme was tried against Senator Wheeler two years ago, but failed...
Vol. 1 • August 1930 • No. 36
